In 1984, a German marketer pulled off one of the coldest betrayals in business history.

He erased the true founder of Red Bull…

...and turned a humble Thai tonic into an $80+ BILLION empire.

This is the untold story of your favorite energy drink 🧵
Dietrich Mateschitz was a marketing director in Germany.

On a trip to Bangkok, he discovered Krating Daeng — a syrupy, flat drink in brown bottles.

Minutes after drinking it, he felt sharper, more alert.

It hit him: This cheap Thai tonic solved a universal problem. Fatigue.

Trump just committed the biggest economic blunder of the decade yesterday.

He slapped 25% tariffs on India, a $4.2T ally, while giving Pakistan, a smaller, unstable country, the economy that sheltered Osama bin Laden - special treatment.

Is this genius or genuinely stupid? 🧵
India: 1.4B people, $129B in US trade, $54B in US investment.

Pakistan: 240M people, $7.3B trade, 4 military coups, ranked 174/180 on corruption.

Trump’s move?

Punish the democracy. Reward the instability.

India just co-led a $32M funding round into one startup.

You know what’s wilder?

That startup, QpiAI, was chosen to build India's $750M sovereign quantum computer.

This is a story of strategy, capital, and a new kind of industrial policy. 👇 The investment comes directly from the National Quantum Mission (NQM), launched in 2023 to make India a global quantum power.

This is not a passive research grant.

The government is actively engineering a national champion, with QpiAI at the centre of that industrial vision.

What do two DJs know about cybersecurity, infra, and AI?

Enough to raise a $100M B2B venture fund that's quietly beating most VCs at their own game.

This is how The Chainsmokers is changing the way celebrity funding works 👇 While most celebrities chase consumer hype - supplements, skincare, sneakers - The Chainsmokers chose to go the other way.

Their early-stage new-age capital fund, Mantis Ventures funds start-ups in the cybersecurity, developer infra, AI tooling, and B2B SaaS spaces.

Richest man in Asia just launched a $64 device that turns your TV into an AI-enabled cloud computer.

It is called JioPC, and it could change how 1.4 billion people access education, productivity, and the internet.

What makes it so powerful? 🧵 JioPC is not a traditional computer. It is a cloud-based virtual desktop that runs through Jio’s Set-Top Box.

When connected to a TV with a keyboard and mouse, it transforms the screen into a functioning PC environment.

No laptop or desktop is needed.

A startup founder showed his crazy AI device to Sam Altman and Jony Ive.

Weeks later… OpenAI launched a $6.4B rival with a nearly identical name.

Here’s the untold truth about Jason Rugolo and iyO 🧵
Just after his pitches, Altman and Jony Ive started quietly working on their own AI hardware venture.

Its name? io.
Its mission?

Strikingly similar: reinventing how humans interact with AI - beyond screens and Alexa-like voice boxes.

Everyone's talking about GPU shortages. But Elon Musk saw the real problem coming - and it isn't compute.

It is power. Now he's importing a 2-Gigawatt power plant (from an undisclosed country) to run his AI supercomputer, Colossus.

The strategy is wild - and brilliant: 🧵
Colossus currently runs 200,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs - a system capable of 500+ exaFLOPs.

Next:

→ Targeting 1 million Blackwell GPUs (GB200 class)
→ Estimated 1.5 to 2 exaFLOPs
→ Equivalent to 2 GW power draw

This is national-infrastructure-grade computing.

Everyone is looking in the wrong direction.

The next trillion-dollar opportunity in AI?
It's not OpenAI, Meta, or Google.

It is AI infrastructure, and six global players just formed a $30B alliance to control it.

Here is what they are building (and why) 🧵


The AI boom has exposed a simple truth:

Models need infrastructure.

Training GPT-4 took ~25,000 GPUs and tens of millions in compute.
Serving ChatGPT at scale costs hundreds of millions annually.

And the world is running out of capacity.

Meta is not just building AI.
It’s building Superintelligence.

And the team behind it?

A dream lineup of researchers, engineers & visionaries from OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic, Waymo and beyond.

Here’s are the 14 stars in Meta superintelligence squad 🧵
Trapit Bansal

Pioneer of “chain-of-thought” reasoning.
Co-creator of the o-series at OpenAI.
Brings symbolic and neural reasoning into harmony.

He’s the guy making superintelligence think like a chess grandmaster, but with code.

World’s richest man could hijack the US govt - without running for office.

That’s exactly what Elon Musk is trying to do. He is turning the Congress into his next startup.

Here’s the real (and brutal) strategy behind his America Party🧵 It began with betrayal.

Musk backed Trump with $277M and ran the “DOGE” department, cutting $190B in federal spend over ~130 days.

Then Trump passed a $3.3T "One Big Beautiful Bill" that excluded green tech.

Musk called it a “disgusting abomination” and quit.

The most powerful network in tech?

Not Harvard. Not Stanford. It’s the PayPal Mafia.

20+ unicorns. $500B+ in value.

The boy band that started Tesla, SpaceX, YouTube, LinkedIn, Palantir, Yelp & more 🧵 Elon Musk:

Co‑founded → merged into PayPal

CEO: Tesla (delivered 1.8 M+ cars in 2024) and SpaceX (200+ launches).

Founded Neuralink, The Boring Co, xAI.
Net Worth: ~$350B+ (World’s richest) X.com

Donald Trump. Elon Musk. Sam Altman. Jensen Huang.
Crown Prince MBS.

No press. No leaks. One lunch.
$600 BILLION in chips, AI, and power.

This was not a handshake in Riyadh—it was the birth of a new tech empire 🧵 At the centre: “Project Transcendence”

Saudi Arabia’s $100B moonshot to become an AI superpower.

Led by “Humain” — a state-backed firm building sovereign LLMs in Arabic, AI infra, and chip clusters.

Think OpenAI + Nvidia + AWS — but funded by oil and ambition.

First, Google gave Mozilla $50M.
Then $100M.
Then $450M.

The most dangerous position in business? Being dependent on your enemy.

Mozilla made that mistake, and Google killed it.

The coldest, most strategic betrayal in tech 🧵 Flashback: 2000s

Firefox was the rebel browser. Fast, open-source, anti-Microsoft.

Millions used it. Google LOVED it.

So they paid Mozilla to make Google the default search engine.

Revenue share?
90%+ of Mozilla’s income.

🚨 AI SCAMS EXPOSED: 11 AI Fraud Cases That Shook The World

From deepfake cons to $1.7B Ponzi bots, discover how AI is being weaponized in finance:

- Fake ML pipelines
- Zero-code backtests
- SEC's AI washing fines

Number 8 is an app we both still use! 🧵 Delphia Inc. billed itself as an “AI-driven” fund using social-media sentiment and retail-spend data.

SEC probe found ZERO ML pipelines—no backtests, no model code.

Settled for $225K, admitted no automated signals.

Lesson: Always ask for code audits

🚨 Netflix didn’t just localise for India.

They REBUILT their product.
From the ground up.
For 1.4+ BILLION users.

Here’s how Netflix cracked India—and turned it into a global innovation lab 🧵 Most global companies try to "adapt" for India.

Netflix?
They engineered for India from Day 1.

- Mobile-first
- 22+ regional languages
- Works even when your net doesn’t

This is how they did it.

Skype is dead.
But it almost wasn’t born.

In the 90s, a call from NYC to Paris cost $113/hr. Then came internet calling, and telcos lost their minds.

What followed?

Lobbying wars, nerd rebellions, and a tech underdog story for the ages 🧵 In 1995, there were just 16M internet users.

But one startup saw the future.

VocalTec launched the first internet calling software — called, wait for it — i-phone.

No relation to Apple.
Telcos? Instantly threatened.